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#BREAKING: Confederate statue at Centennial Park vandalized. pic.twitter.com/4jzm3LIk8p — NewsChannel 5 (@NC5) June 17, 2019 This is what happens when you let the losers of an unjust war put up monuments to their heroes. CNN: A Confederate statue in Nashville's...

The NSO Group (previously) is one of the world's most notorious cyber-arms dealers, linked to horrific human rights abuses, extrajudicial killing of human rights activists, and the dirtiest of dirty trick campaigns against its critics (and their lawyers) -- they're also...

Today I wanted to speak directly to the people of CA-45. There's been a lot of noise in D.C. and in the press about impeachment, so I wanted to share my thoughts with you. pic.twitter.com/ceri6lHwbY — Rep. Katie Porter (@RepKatiePorter) June 18, 2019 Katie Porter is the...

Gordon Buchanan is a ladies man... lady polar bears, that is. While on assignment for the BBC, Buchanan, in what I'm sure he hopes is a polar bear-proof enclosure, is accosted by a hungry, frozen waste-wandering beast. Nope. All the nopes that ever noped. Image via Wikipedia

Karl Schroeder (previously) is literally the most visionary person I know (and I've known him since 1986!): he was the first person to every mention 'fractals' to me, then 'the internet' and then 'the web' -- there is no one, no one in my circle more ahead of more curves,...

Back in the day, I had a Datel Action Replay wedged into my Commodore Amiga. More than just a cheat device, it let you peek into all the internal goings-on of a game, manipulating content as well as a few select variables, scrambling the reality so carefully devised by the...

While everyone outside of Mexico is moaning about the steep cost of avocados, those living inside of the country are paying a far higher price. From The Yucatan Times: Every day, avocado producers are victims of robberies and lose an average of four loaded trucks of around...

A woman in England named Siobhan asked her colleagues to put pop star Mariah Carey's image on her birthday cake. Instead, she got French physicist Marie Curie on it. Lye writes, 'They misunderstood, and [this] is the cake they made her instead. It’s Marie Curie, looking...

No matter whether your memories of George Lucas' Star Wars prequels are fond or furious, there's no denying that, at the time that films were released, their cutting-edge visual effects were unlike anything else out there--but how do they hold up today? It's a question that...

There are, occasionally, some concrete barriers on the road to Munsiyari, Uttarakhand. Wonderful views, too! Born Idiots writes: In June, we went to Munsiyari, Uttarakhand, which is a narrow and dangerous Himalayan road. As we climb up the kumaon ranges, roads get narrow and ...

Even if you feel like AirPods are worth the price tag, you've got to admit there's a certain anxiety that comes with using them. What if I lose them? What if they get wet in the rain? Or drenched in sweat? Or fall into the drink you dropped them into? Shiny tech is great,...

Back in 2017, a law student named Lena Khan made waves in policy circles with the publication of her massive, brilliant, game-changing 24,000-word article in the Yale Law Journal, Amazon's Antitrust Paradox, which revisited the entirety of post-Ronald-Reagan antitrust...

22-year-old Brian Isaack Clyde reportedly opened fire in Dallas's federal courthouse today and was killed by cops shortly thereafter. From his Facebook feed, a few months ago: a photo of a man posing with a rifle in medieval armor, his anime waifu bodypillow nestled in one...

The easiest way to secure shoddy internet-of-things gadgets like TV sets and cameras? Make it the consumer's problem. Samsung has advised owners of its latest TVs to run regular virus scans. A how-to video on the Samsung Support USA Twitter account demonstrates the more than ...

Applying a cat filter to a politician is an egregious act. Everyone knows politicians require clown filters. So this happened today when PTI's SM team forgot to turn off the cat filter while live streaming a press conference on Facebook. @SAYousafzaiPTI looks kinda cute pic....

Genius is a lyrics website, and it has long suspected that Google has been copying its song lytic transcriptions. Google has denied the accusation. But in 2016 Genius started using combinations of straight and curly apostrophes in its lyrics in such a way as to spell out...